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AR/VR tech in Asia-Pacific: here’s where the money is

December 7, 2022 Joana Bagano 0

AR/VR will still mainly be a consumer play in APAC by 2026, but use cases for enterprises include training, collaboration, and (of course) the metaverse: IDC Read more…

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China now has a plan to ship over 25m VR devices by 2026

November 2, 2022 News Centre 0

China has released its first action plan to ship more than 25 million virtual, augmented and mixed reality devices with a value exceeding $48 billion by 2026. Read more…

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What history tells us about the future of the metaverse

October 20, 2022 Jouko Ahvenainen 0

Metaverse platforms are here, but few are signing up and fewer come back. What’s going on? Those who remember the history of 3G may have an idea. Read more…

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Quest Pro brings Meta one step closer to the metaverse

October 13, 2022 News Centre 0

Meta unveils its Quest Pro VR/MR headset, marking a milestone for Mark Zuckerberg’s break into the higher-end market for extended reality devices. Read more…

Meta Qualcomm
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Meta taps Qualcomm to make chips for its VR devices

September 5, 2022 News Centre 0

Meta has signed an agreement to have chip-maker Qualcomm produce custom chipsets for its Quest VR devices, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platforms. Read more…

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Meta won’t pass metaverse Turing Test by throwing hardware at it

June 22, 2022 Richard Windsor 0

Meta is developing hardware designed to kickstart the metaverse by solving the visual Turing Test. But hardware is not the real problem. Read more…

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Qualcomm’s Amon bullish on smartphones despite economic slowdown

May 26, 2022 News Centre 0

At WEF, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon sees growth ahead for high-end smartphones, even as talk about an economic slowdown dominates the event. Read more…

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Legs are the hardest part of you to put in the metaverse

February 22, 2022 John C. Tanner 0

How come Meta’s metaverse avatars got no legs? The answer: legs are hard to replicate, and users may not want them anyway. Read more…

the next steps
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The next steps for tech: computerize humans or humanize computers?

February 10, 2022 Alex Leslie 0

The next steps are extraordinarily important and the choices are whether we computerize humans or humanize computers. Or both. Or neither. Read more…

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Invact Metaversity raises $33m to develop metaverse university platform

February 8, 2022 Staff Writer 0

Invact Metaversity – founded by former Twitter India boss Manish Maheshwari – offers an immersive virtual learning platform for the metaverse. Read more…

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Meta adds personal space tool to combat metaverse harassment

February 7, 2022 News Centre 0

Meta is launching a tool for VR users to maintain personal space boundaries as concerns mount about sexual harassment in the metaverse. Read more…

leaving our world
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Leaving our world two ways is cool, but people are getting hurt

February 4, 2022 Alex Leslie 0

Leaving our world seems to be a focus for humanity. We are either burying ourselves in immersive environments or heading for outer space. Read more…

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Metaverse hospital? Asian healthcare facilities explore future

February 1, 2022 Joana Bagano 0

Healthcare providers are considering how VR and AR might help in the future, when patients use the metaverse to assist with treatment. Read more…

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Sexual harassment in the metaverse isn’t virtual – it’s real

January 19, 2022 John C. Tanner 1

The metaverse already has a sexual harassment problem. What are companies like Meta Platforms going to do about it? Read more…

VR digital surveillance
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VR and the metaverse could make data surveillance even worse

January 18, 2022 John C. Tanner 0

With VR sets collecting even more data on us than traditional screens, the metaverse could take data surveillance to new levels of creepy. Read more…

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The metaverse moves from something out of a sci-fi novel toward reality

November 22, 2021 Guest Writer 0

The metaverse concept is not new, but to many people, it still sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel: a parallel, virtual environment. Read more…

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Nvidia unveils new tools in bid to be ‘the plumbing’ of the metaverse

November 9, 2021 News Centre 0

Nvidia releases new Omniverse tools for developers to create a metaverse of virtual worlds – and use a lot of Nvidia’s chips in the process. Read more…

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Consumer 5G is here (or coming soon) and Asia is leading the way

October 14, 2021 Alex Leslie 0

Consumer 5G is here. YouGov has published its International Telco Report 2021, and has been asking people their thoughts on 5G. Read more…

AR is growing
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AR is growing faster than we thought – will AR and VR change our reality?

August 23, 2021 Alex Leslie 0

AR is growing faster than we thought and we now have numbers that support this. Will AR and VR take us to the next level of internet. Read more…

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Advertising is being tested in VR – it’s not working, so what is the future?

June 23, 2021 Alex Leslie 0

Advertising in VR just felt wrong. From the moment that Facebook announced that it was going to trial it, we were waiting for the backlash. Read more…

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